Ainara Olondris Lopez

Donostia/San Sebastián, 1979. Graduated in Medicine from the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) and Master’s in Palliative Care from the University of Valladolid. She is a member of hospital committees of the OSI Goierri Alto Urola Integrated Health Organization for Palliative Care, Mortality and Research and part of the Euthanasia reference team of the same organization. She has more than eleven years of experience accompanying patients in need of palliative care both in hospital consultation and at home.

Interview: Luisa Etxenike

Luisa Etxenike is a writer and currently the director of Canal Europa. She runs the literary festival Un mundo de Escritoras, as well as a creative writing workshop for some years now. She has published, among others, the novels Los peces negros (2005), El ángulo ciego (Euskadi Literature Prize 2009), El detective de sonidos (2011), Aves del paraíso (2019), as well as the collection of poems El arte de la pesca (2015). She has also published Cruzar el agua (2022), Llevar en la piel (2023, winner of the Semana Negra Silverio Cañada Memorial Prize) and Cuerdas (2025). In 2007 she was awarded the distinction of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government.